As you know, I've had a decent amount of experience working with organic produce- It's funny...

Being that a proper tomato is so nuanced in flavor, taste, and texture beyond all other fruits and veggies, said product is probably the best gauge of what you're getting -- overall -- through the outlet from whom you buy, and subsequently where they are getting it from. The lesser the flavor, the more likely you're eating "apartheid" produce. The same goes for apples, especially species whose taste straddle the line between sweet and tart. I never buy conventionally grown Fuji apples if I can help it.

Also, when I'm at a place like Safeway, I always try to buy vine-on tomatoes. I can't be sure of the story behind their harvest, but at the very least they taste exponentially better. They're allowed to ripen on the vine, as opposed to being picked while still immature.

Those markets in the Mission, places like them (Hispanic/Latino), or any market for that matter... If the price of bulk carrots and bananas -- specifically -- are extraordinarily low, everything in that place is most likely inferior when it comes to quality, and the quality of pay/life of those that picked it.___

The continuous problem is that persons like us, living in the SF Bay Area, virtually have outlets at every corner to procure local and organic -- not that we can always afford it -- where as persons and families in Middle America have no outlets, even those who can afford it.

In the Bay Area, Wal-Marts don't have supermarket sections, just frozen, baked goods, and non-perishables. Out in the non-cosmopolitan parts of the country, Wal-Marts literally sell EVERYTHING!!! People do all their shopping there, including for all their grocery needs.

As you know, Wal-Mart goes out of it's way to purchase "apartheid" merchandise, and why they were the only large retailer to grow in this past recession year... What chance do "slave" workers have as long as Wal-Mart exists?!